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vague and indefinite rejection

glossary / vague-and-indefinite rejection

Rejection of a patent claim on the ground that a person of ordinary skill in the art could not clearly understand it. • For example, terms used in more than one sense could make the meaning unclear. — Also termed Section 112 rejection. [Cases: Patents 101(6).]

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nonobviousness

glossary / NONOBVIOUSNESS

nonobviousness. Patents. 1. An invention’s quality of being sufficiently different from the prior art that, at the time the invention was made, it would not have been obvious to a person having ordinary skill in the art relevant to the invention. 2. The requirement that this quality must be demonstrated for an invention to be

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